Appendix A High Availability Overview

Appendix A High Availability Overview

SonicWALL

High Availability functionality

Stateless vs Stateful
Identical Appliances
Identical Firmware

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SonicWALL

High Availability Terminology

Primary
Backup
Active
Idle
Failover
Preempt
Basic HA (stateless)
Stateful HA

SonicWALL

HA pairing process
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

Pre-pairing configuration
Registration
Pairing
HA Monitoring
Settings synchronization
Testing HA

SonicWALL

Pre-Pairing tasks
Record serial numbers of the appliances
Register the Primary SonicWALL appliance, including desired
SonicWALL security services.
Make sure that the two appliances are running the same
version of SonicOS.
Make sure Primary SonicWALL and Backup SonicWALL security
appliances LAN, WAN, and other interfaces are properly
cabled for seamless failover.
Turn off On-board wireless
Disabled PortShield on all interfaces

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SonicWALL

Registration and License

synchronization

Must be same
version!

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SonicWALL

High Availability Settings

SonicWALL

HA Monitoring

SonicWALL

Settings Synchronization

Secondary

Primary

Settings

LAN
SonicWALL

Testing HA

Prempt Mode:
On
Secondary

Primary

LAN
SonicWALL